This is an analysis of the poem La Question Culinaire that begins with:

Il a raison, le petit père.
Il ne saurait, qui peut le faire,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXX XXXXXX abXbXX XcdXXd XXXXXX XXXXXX eeXXXX XXXXXX XfXcXX XfXcXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10100101 111101101 10111100 01110010 0010110 1100110 1010111 1111111 11111100 111110111 100111 0111111 110111110 11100010 101111111 11110110 111111111 01011101 101011111 0101101 01110011 101111110 11011111 1110111 1011110 111110 111011010 11111110 11110100 11010101 1110010 01110110 111100011 11101110 1101111100 11101110 11000110 10110100 11001100 11000110 1111011 10111100 11101 1011110 1111110 11111110 011111010 110111 10111110 111111101 111110 1111111 111000111 1111101 111111 11101101 1100110 110111101 1100110 101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; m, d, vous, est are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word il is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, mes are repeated).

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  • summary of La Question Culinaire;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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